Qualifinds

VII Staff Back End Engineer

Qualifinds

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇲🇽 Mexico

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Salary

💰 $96,000 - $108,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDistributed SystemsDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesPostgresPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Own the entire backend architecture from day one—make the critical decisions on frameworks, databases, infrastructure, and patterns
  • Define technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and deployment
  • Lead system design for complex problems involving data ingestion, LLM orchestration, and real-time analytics
  • Mentor and guide future backend engineers as the team grows (you'll likely hire and lead 2-3 backend engineers in your first year)
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve velocity, reliability, or capabilities
  • Build and scale core backend systems to ingest, clean, and serve structured data at scale
  • Design clean, performant APIs to power our client portal, data tools, and internal services
  • Architect event-driven systems and asynchronous pipelines (queues, pub/sub) for reliability and scale
  • Own our infrastructure including CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and IaC (Terraform, AWS)
  • Collaborate daily on architecture, technical roadmap, and engineering standards with Head of Engineering
  • Partner closely with CPO and product team to shape roadmap based on technical feasibility and effort

Requirements

  • B.S in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a technical lead, staff, or principal role at a high-growth startup or product company
  • Proven track record of mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, and making architectural decisions that scale
  • Expert in Python with deep understanding of performance, concurrency, and design patterns
  • Strong database expertise (PostgreSQL or similar) including query optimization, schema design, and data modeling
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems including event-driven architectures, message queues, and async patterns (Celery, Kafka, SQS, etc.)
  • Production experience with AWS (or GCP/Azure) including compute, storage, networking, and managed services
  • Strong DevOps fundamentals: Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring/observability
  • Data engineering fluency: ETL/ELT patterns, data lakes vs. warehouses, pipeline orchestration
  • You balance pragmatism with technical excellence; you know when to move fast and when to invest in infrastructure
  • You thrive in ambiguity and can chart technical direction with incomplete information.
Benefits
  • Meaningful equity
  • Competitive compensation
  • Remote-flexible culture

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
backend engineeringPythondatabase expertisePostgreSQLdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturesmessage queuesDevOpsdata engineeringETL/ELT patterns
Soft skills
mentoringleadershiptechnical decision-makingpragmatismadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationguidancestrategic thinking
Certifications
B.S in Computer Science